![Rough, fissured tree bark, studded with hundreds of acorns in holes.](https://earthsky.org/upl/2020/12/acorn-woodpecker-stash-dec5-2020-Fern-Zalin-anta-Clarita-Valley-CA-scaled-e1607595827606.jpeg)
View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Fern Zalin in Santa Clarita Valley, California, captured this image on December 5, 2020, and wrote: “Acorn woodpeckers have made this huge old Valley Oak into a granary tree, stashing thousands and thousands of acorns as high as I could see.” Thank you, Fern!
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https://earthsky.org/todays-image/photo-acorn-woodpecker-winter-stash